BURNT: A disgraced chef (Bradley Cooper) cleans up his act and tries to recapture his former glory. (R for language throughout) http://burntmovie.com

FREAKS OF NATURE: Just in time for Halloween, this horror comedy finds humans, zombies and vampires living together peacefully — until the alien apocalypse arrives, of course. (R for bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, sexual content and drug use - all involving teens) https://www.facebook.com/FreaksOfNatureMovie?fref=ts

This week's movies brought to you by the letter R: A curious thing about the four movies opening locally this weekend — three are wide releases and the fourth is a potential Oscar contender which had a limited opening two weeks ago: all are rated R, as in "restricted," as in "no one younger than 17 admitted without a parent or guardian." That includes the ostensibly Halloween-related zombie-vampire-alien flick, "Freaks of Nature" — not to be confused with "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse," which opens in a limited amount of theaters this Friday, none of them near here. Fear not, next week is a little more family-friendly; the new James Bond film, "Spectre," and historical saga, "Suffragette" (both earned a PG-13) and the return of Charlie Brown and his posse to the big screen, "The Peanuts Movie," comes in with the increasingly elusive G rating.